Prayers answereth all things is a popular mantra in Nigeria. The average Nigerian will pray about 5 times a day. The Christians will in the least pray in the morning when they get up, at night before they go to bed and once every mealtime. Muslims observe the Salat or five daily prayers. The anointed Pentecostal will even say a short prayer to enable him have the strength to say the main prayers. To say Nigerians are very prayerful people will be stating the obvious.

The main beneficiary of the prayerful Nigerian is the Nigerian Government. Nigerians will rather put their faith in prayers than hold their government accountable. The Nigerian has a prayer to counter the almost every failing of the government. For bad roads, we play for journey mercies. For poor security, we cover ourselves, houses and properties with the mighty blood of Jesus. For unemployment, we pray for breakthrough. For our bad schools, we pray for exam success. For poor healthcare, we pray for divine healing. For anything we missed, we pray for our country Nigeria.

These days our prayer warriors and marabouts have taken on the roles of commissioners and ministers. We depend on them to fill in the gaps when government officials siphon project monies to Swiss bank accounts. This however amounts to double taxation, as prayers do not come cheap in Nigeria. Prayers for breakthrough and prosperity can cost as much as 10% of your meagre income in the form of tithes. If your require spiritual healing and insurance from your neighbourhood native doctor, you will have to factor in the going rate for a black he-goat, white cockerel, kolanuts, alligator pepper and a bottle of Hennessey or black Label. No modern native doctor worth his salt will accept aromatic schnapps or ogogoro. Everybody has gone foreign these days.

The prayer sorting office in heaven will be in a state of confusion when prayer requests from Nigerians arrive. How should they treat a prayer request from car drivers who want protection from their cars, meanwhile armed robbers are praying for there to be flashy cars on the road when they are doing their operation? On the other hand, fake drug dealers pray for malaria epidemic so they call sell enough medicine.

No matter how much Nigerians pray, it looks like they know there is a limit to divine intervention. Have you ever heard anybody pray, “God, please let there be electricity in my house for the next three days”? Electricity seems to be the yoke that breaks the prayer camel’s back. Even the greatest of prayer warriors and miracle workers have still not been able to invoke the first prayer “Let there be light”. Generator and candle sellers do not need to do prayer and fasting because they know that no prayers fashioned against their business shall prosper until the government does the right this and Lights Up Nigeria.

bermuda1:

Prayers answereth all things is a popular mantra in Nigeria. The average Nigerian will pray about 5 times a day. The Christians will in the least pray in the morning when they get up, at night before they go to bed and once every mealtime. Muslims observe the Salat or five daily prayers. The anointed Pentecostal will even say a short prayer to enable him have the strength to say the main prayers. To say Nigerians are very prayerful people will be stating the obvious.

The main beneficiary of the prayerful Nigerian is the Nigerian Government. Nigerians will rather put their faith in prayers than hold their government accountable. The Nigerian has a prayer to counter the almost every failing of the government. For bad roads, we play for journey mercies. For poor security, we cover ourselves, houses and properties with the mighty blood of Jesus. For unemployment, we pray for breakthrough. For our bad schools, we pray for exam success. For poor healthcare, we pray for divine healing. For anything we missed, we pray for our country Nigeria.

These days our prayer warriors and marabouts have taken on the roles of commissioners and ministers. We depend on them to fill in the gaps when government officials siphon project monies to Swiss bank accounts. This however amounts to double taxation, as prayers do not come cheap in Nigeria. Prayers for breakthrough and prosperity can cost as much as 10% of your meagre income in the form of tithes. If your require spiritual healing and insurance from your neighbourhood native doctor, you will have to factor in the going rate for a black he-goat, white cockerel, kolanuts, alligator pepper and a bottle of Hennessey or black Label. No modern native doctor worth his salt will accept aromatic schnapps or ogogoro. Everybody has gone foreign these days.

The prayer sorting office in heaven will be in a state of confusion when prayer requests from Nigerians arrive. How should they treat a prayer request from car drivers who want protection from their cars, meanwhile armed robbers are praying for there to be flashy cars on the road when they are doing their operation? On the other hand, fake drug dealers pray for malaria epidemic so they call sell enough medicine.

No matter how much Nigerians pray, it looks like they know there is a limit to divine intervention. Have you ever heard anybody pray, “God, please let there be electricity in my house for the next three days”? Electricity seems to be the yoke that breaks the prayer camel’s back. Even the greatest of prayer warriors and miracle workers have still not been able to invoke the first prayer “Let there be light”. Generator and candle sellers do not need to do prayer and fasting because they know that no prayers fashioned against their business shall prosper until the government does the right this and Lights Up Nigeria.

In as much as you have said the truth that prayer does not work and that religion is a fraud, wait and see how blindly devoted religious faithfuls (Christians especially) will come here to defend their ineffective religion, without actually refuting everything you have said. Really pathetic race!

Please stop that! Prayer works and works well. Yesterday, when I was going to my house I prayed that when I get home I should see the news and to God be the glory I got home at exactly 10:03, lo and behold they just started news at Channels TV and STV. Praise the LORD!!!. Honestly, I wonder why people just cannot reason, infact Nigerian situation has shown that there is nothing like answered prayer. While it is true that sometimes people pray for certain things and close to desired results manifest, one can safely say this is the exception and not the rule. Statistical data will show that less than 2% of prayers are answered but then people will say it it because you do not have faith. OK if it is about faith less all faith preachers in Nigeria should pray with plenty faith and ask that all bad leaders in Nigeria should be miraculously abdicate the positions of leadership and good leaders should mount the seat to transform Nigeria in one month. Please nobody should come here and say do not blame God for men's choices because no one is blaming God here, we are only saying prayers are impotent and if you want to prove the OP wrong put his conclusion to the test in one of many terrible Nigerian situations

One of the major reasons for Nigeria's continual underdevelopment is that we tend to rely on God to do what we ourselves could so easily do

When we run out of ideas on how to deal with a problem we bring in the spiritual angle and hope that God has the solution or Satan and his agents are the cause of the problem.

@ OP, Nice write up. . .Non of them will ouch it because they know how true it is. . . .Prayers do not work and have never worked. . .Every thing that man needs to do MUST be done by man himself, no god or prayers has ever helped any society to develop enough said. . .

Nice write up. I can't say much coz this (amongst other religious issues) have been trashed over and over and over in this section exhaustively.

prayers dont work lol in your dreams.
victory is ours from beginging and victory is ours to the end.
Read the book of Saints. Read about Saint. Anthony etc their history and place of birth is in this world, I thought the isrealites left eyypt miraclously or is it a fairly tale,

grailife:

prayers dont work lol in your dreams.
victory is ours from beginging and victory is ours to the end.
Read the book of Saints. Read about Saint. Anthony etc their history and place of birth is in this world, I thought the isrealites left eyypt miraclously or is it a fairly tale,

Yep, its a fairy tale. . .

Yet, Nigeria is still one of the most poverty-stricken countries in the world.
What could the hypocrites be praying to and FOR?
They most be praying to BAAL for sure?
Even unbelievers are more progressive than the reetarded 'prayerfuls'!
What an irony of life!

Blessed are the 'prayerful' in Nigeria. . . for they shall inherit poverty, sickness and death!

Thank OUR RESPECTIVE GODS, we don't worship the same GODS! My GOD is the GOD of contentment. . .to be satisfied with what I have and who I am.

Praise my lord. . . NO PRAYER NECESSARY!

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Here: People that don't waste time praying to 'deaf and dumb' GODS progress better than you!
We are here to inherit the Earth. . .Keep praying. . .die poor and inherit the kingdom of your GOD!
I would prefer hell in the after life.

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I guess your prayer worked. Una don comot for list of worlds poorest countries. Nigeria used to be #9.
Praise una God o!

I just feel its important to state: Ignorance is not an excuse in law.

When you pray you dream your prayer makes you believe that everything will be alright and get that feeling of false hope. Like religon, prayer is the opium of the masses.